A Ghost Hacker is one that is so good that nobody even realises they exist.

FrostWalker was the best Ghost Hacker, but his mistake was in doing the military a favour in order to prevent a war. After that, his name got out, and he realised that he quite enjoyed being famous, generally annoying people, and causing a lot of trouble.

Marcy was the squad leader of an elite military unit. Her special ops team were experts in infiltration, assassination, stealth and hacking. Over the years, she's taken several bullet wounds, been tortured, blown up, and had two mental breakdowns. She was reluctantly discharged from the military due to severe trauma and PTSD.

Kel was the best hacker in the world with regard to brute-forcing secure systems, decryption and statistical analysis (something only he understood the power of). Kel has spent time in jail, people have tried to kill him, kidnap him, and he's being hunted by the head of the biggest criminal gang in the world - with extreme prejudice. He's now flat broke, despite being the best in the world with regard to charming people, scams, alcoholism, drug addiction, and he has so many girlfriends he's lost track of them.

All three of them are insane and are currently being hunted or monitored by various organisations, gangs, the police, Nexus, and the military. They have a loose agreement that if they stay out of each other's affairs, they might not kill each other. Marcy decided to retire, funnelled all her money into buying a cocktail bar, and Kel started working for her as a promoter. What could possibly go wrong? The tax man!

But why would two of the best hackers on the planet, wanted by pretty much everyone, start a cocktail bar, then go bankrupt?

Every one of the three has their own little "side-projects" they are hiding from the others, but as it turns out, some of those "side-projects" aren't so little! They're hiding secrets so deep that if any one of them had an inkling as to the extent of them, the others would kill them in an instant!

Leash is a sickening new drug, that's so addictive, it's being used by criminal gangs involved with child and sex trafficking. FrostWalker reputedly blew up a number of manufactories, started a drug war, went on a killing spree, and then put the gang leader in prison. At first, it looked like FrostWalker was attempting to destroy Leash production? However, he's now taken control, and the drug is more popular than ever.

Marcy's special ops team is now working as Security for various bars and clubs in the same city. The hacking organisation Nexus, the government, local law enforcement, and the tax man, are watching Kel and Marcy closely, mostly because everyone is trying to find FrostWalker and kill him.

FrostWalker and Kel want to kill each other; however, there is one person they both hate more than each other, and they're working together behind Marcy's back with a plan to kill Yamaura. Yamaura is the psychotic leader of the biggest criminal empire on the planet, who wants to kill pretty much everyone (with FrostWalker and Kel right at the top of that list). FrostWalker and Kel are also working together on a wider project that will do more than just shock the world; it will bring the world to its knees, potentially cause a war, or even Armageddon. After that, if anyone's still left alive, Kel and FrostWalker plan to kill each other.

Finally, there's a crazy AI called XIII living both in a med-bot and the satellites surrounding the planet. An AI with the power to hack nuclear power stations, nuclear weapons arrays, control military attack helicopters, bring down passenger planes, and knock its satellites (known as The Eyes Of XIII) from orbit to send them on a collision course with the major cities.

Kel, Marcy and FrostWalker don't realise that the only reason they haven't been killed yet is that everyone thinks there is a connection between them and XIII. Most of them want to kill or study XIII even more than they want to kill them. The AI is a billionaire that regularly spends all its cash when it gets bored, just so it can start again from scratch and accumulate it again. It has crashed the stock market several times and brought down some major companies just for fun! But XIII's greatest enemy doesn't want to kill the AI.

The most important point is that XIII hasn't paid the tax man!

Nobody messes with the tax man!

And XIII's tax bill is really quite incredible...

But with potential Armageddon on the horizon, there's only one thing that could make the situation worse than the tax man being involved.

Kel is a hacker, a scammer, and a charmer, with more girlfriends than he cares to (or can) remember.

When Kel's landlord (and also his girlfriend) rents out her two spare rooms, and two girls move in, things get somewhat confusing. Kel might have noticed that the first was intent on killing him, if it wasn't for the fact that he was distracted by the second. In that case, it was love at first sight! And yet he was apparently betrothed to a 'Tattooed Goddess' that he couldn't even remember, and a tiny 'Green Haired Ninja' (or fairy/demon/god/angel) who was also intent on either marrying him, killing him, or worse. It seemed that mostly she was intent on stealing his wallet, putting it in the fridge, and charging him for drinking the beer he'd already paid for?

Kel somehow managed to ignore the lightning bolts creeping in past the curtains, dodge past the green haired ninja fairy vampire hiding in the fridge, throw up, work out what time it was, and then was promptly fired by his boss, who happened to be the owner of the best cocktail bar in central (only because Kel had hacked the rankings). However his boss could have done that herself, given she was the leader of the most elite special ops military hacking unit ever known. However she had a breakdown after being tortured and now has PTSD, which Kel also has. Her old unit is working for security in the club they both own a share in, but they can't cash in on it because the real enemy was looking for them!

The tax man!

And as all know, nobody defeats the tax man.

Despite being insanely rich, they only had two weeks to balance their books and somehow pretend they ran a legitimate business? Otherwise they'd lose the only thing keeping Marcy sane. Her cocktail bar, Firefly! If Marcy lost Firefly, Armageddon was guaranteed. The death count would be insane!

The tax man would put them both in jail forever. The rest of the world just planned to kill them.

But if anyone, including Marcy, understood the true depths of Kel's lies and his "side projects"? Or his involvement with the sickening new drug, Leash, child trafficking and abuse? Or his links to FrostWalker? Or XIII?

Armageddon was already on the horizon. But they would drop a nuke on Kel first to make sure they did the job properly.